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A true public servant: John R. Frost, by Brian Winter, archivist, Whitby Historical Society in Co-operation with the Corporation of the Town of Whitby
Whitby, ON: 1971. pp 28. Illustrated. Stapled in paper covers (which are two inches wider than the text pages). Soft creases to the oversize fore edges, VG otherwise. Frost was clerk-treasurer of Whiby 1926-1966. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45191More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
A bibliography of Canadian bibliographies, compiled by the 1929 and 1930 classes in bibliography of the McGill university library school under the direction of Marion V. Higgins, instructor in bibliography
Montreal: McGill University, 1930. Octavo, buff card covers. pp 45, [5]. Ex library, with cloth tape to spine, tears to fore margins of covers, good, contents clean and unworn. McGill university publications. Series VII (Library) no. 20. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45516More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
Among the forest trees : or, How the Bushman family got their homes : being a book of facts and incidents of pioneer life in Upper Canada, arranged in the form of a story
University of Toronto Press, 1973. Blue cloth without jacket, as issued. pp 380. Fine copy. Facsimile reprint of the Toronto: Briggs, 1888, original. Fictionalized pioneer life in Ontario
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49262More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Concordat Proviso Ascendant: A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario, Book III
Edition: First Canadian issue
Great Barrington, Massachusetts: The Figures, 1991. Glossy card covers. Fine copy. Total edition of 1250 copies, this is the issue for Canada (250 copies) with author drawing after title leaf and a pasted in illustration at rear. Prose. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 49563More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
DUNDAS; or, a sketch of Canadian history, and more particularly of the County of Dundas, one of the earliest settled counties in Upper Canada
Belleville, Ontario: Mika, 1972. Facsimile reprint of the Montreal, 1861, edition. Octavo. Green cloth gilt lettered. pp 352. Index. Light sticker residue to lower spine, slight evidence of removed label on front free endpaper, Mika title leaf and introduction has been removed, else a VG clean and unworn copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45285More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Harrison Park Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
Edition: First edition.
Owen Sound, Ontario: Author, 1997. Green boards. pp xii, 171. Illustrated. Fine in VG jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50720More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Impressions de théâtre, Paris-Bruxelles, 1949.
Edition: First printing
Ottawa: Author, 1950. Card covers, pp 55. VG+ copy. Edition of 500 copies. This was Canadian scholar and frequent reviewer of French-Canadian literature W.E. Collin's copy, with his ink signature and his catalogue card laid in. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47574More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
The development of painting in Canada / Le developpement de la peinture au Canada, 1665-1945
Toronto: Ryerson, 1945. Third printing. pp 65 stapled in cream card covers. Lower outer corner of pp 33-34 torn away with loss of parts of a few words, else fine. One colour and numerous black & white reproductions. Catalogue of an exhibition held January at the Art Gallery of Toronto, February at The Art Association of Montreal, March at The National Gallery of Canada, and April at Le Musée de la Province de Quebec. Designed and printed by Rous and Mann, Toronto. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced. Size: Octavo.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45308More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
The Hotel Dieu from the Dream in 1944 to the End of an Era in 1980
St. Catharines, ON: The Hospital, 1981. Card covers with die-cut windows on front cover, black cloth backstrip. pp 80. Photos, drawings. Small soil spot to front cover, near fine.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50517More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Tradition du Québec : recueil de morceaux choisis dans les œuvres des poètes et prosateurs du Canada français / par Séraphin Marion ... ; et traduits en anglais par Watson Kirkconnell ...
Edition: First printing
Montréal: Éditions Lumen, 1946. Card covers, 245, [3] p. Cover creases, VG otherwise. Collection Humanitas (Université de Montréal. Faculté des lettres). French and English texts on facing pages. This was Canadian scholar and frequent reviewer of French-Canadian literature W.E. Collin's copy. It has some light pencil notes and his catalogue card laid in as well as his ink signature.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47562More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
"We'll stick to the finish!" : "C'est la guerre" (it is the war) a voice from the soldiers and sailors overseas--people and places visited in the war zones
Edition: First Edition
Boston: Chapple Publishing, 1918. Khaki cloth. pp (xvi), 303 + plates. Spine lightly darkened, yellowing to page edges, lacking front free endpaper, ink owner name, else a VG clean and unworn copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48056More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
-County of Ontario: short notes as to the early settlement and progress of the county and brief references to the pioneers and some Ontario county men who have taken a prominent part in Provincial and Dominion affairs
Whitby, ON: Gazette-Chronicle Press, 1907. Octavo. Printed paper-covered boards, cloth spine. pp [4], 103, [3] + frontispiece (the court house, dated 1910) + 8 other photo plates. Text in double columns. Rebacked with author and title hand lettered; wide strips of clear tape in inner margins of covers; new endpapers?; pulpy text paper yellowed; evidence of removed label at rear; good copy otherwise, fragile text clean and unworn. Whitby, Uxbridge, Oshawa, Cannington. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 45568More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
1 WALKED OUT OF 2 AND FORGOT IT
Edition: First printing
Millerton, New York: Something Else Press, 1972. Octavo, red cloth, pale green endpapers, black top page edges. pp (vi), 90. Fine in fine jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "To Christopher with great expectations Love Toby Oct. 1976." A first novel by this Detroit woman who was an expatriate living in Canada. Edition of 1k copies.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 37077More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
100 Caterpillars: portraits from the tropical forests of Costa Rica
Edition: First edition
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Oblong octavo, black cloth. pp (8), 264. Colour photos. Fine in fine jacket. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46110More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
100 YEARS. The Royal Canadian Regiment 1883-1983
Edition: First printing
Don Mills, Ontario: Collier Macmillan Canada, 1983. Small sqaurish quarto, dark blue boards. 184 pp. Sepia and colour photos throughout. Foreword by Prince Philip. Mainly a picture book, with photos by Bell, text by Stacey. Ink owner name; slight rubbing to foot of spine and lower outer corners; else fine. Jacket has tears at head of spine, VG otherwise. 1.5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 48140More details Price: USD $15.95 USD $14.36 -
1001 NACHT. Aus der von Felix Paul Greve Besorgtenvollstandigen Ausgabe und in Vier Banden Herausgegeben von Paul Ernst.
Leipzig: Insel, 1911. Four volumes. Variant binding of publisher's brown leather with gilt decorated spine, top edges gilt, decorated endpapers, ribbon markers bound in. (iv), (497), (3); (iv), (472); (iv), (449), (3); (iv), (503), (1) pp. Minor cover rubbing; some inner hinges cracked; else a VG set A selection from DIE ERZAHLUNGEN AUS DEN TAUSEND UND EIN NACHTEN (12 vols., 1907-08), Grove / Greve's translation of Burton's editon, and the first complete edition in German. This selection also came in brown leather with gilt top edges. "Frederick Philip Grove", as he called himself when he immigrated to Canada, left behind in Germany a literary career which he failed to mention in his "autobiography" IN SEARCH OF MYSELF. 2.5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 4304More details Price: USD $200.00 USD $180.00 -
1001 WAYS TO MAKE LOVE
New York: Grove Press, c1969. Second printing. Mass market paperback original. Illustrated. Fine, crisp copy.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 34144More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
11 EDWARD STREET (proof copy)
Edition: First US edition
New York: Talese/Doubleday, 1992. Uncorrected proof in cream non-pictorial card covers. Corner crease to front cover, light spine sunning, VG otherwise. A novel of Dublin.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 32352More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
12 POEMS AT THE END OF ANOTHER 1000 YEARS
Edition: First printing
San Mateo, CA: True Heart Publications, 1998. Octavo, 12 pp stapled in lavendar paper covers. Covers faintly sunned at margins, else fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47140More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
127 years in the making
Standard Steel Works Company: Philadelphia, 1922. pp (16). Black boards with cover label. Fine copy. Original plain tissue wrapper chips. Sketch history of the company. Centre spread drawing of their works at Bunham, PA. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Book: Fine, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44752More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00